Dell PowerVault MD3860f Owner's Manual

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Closing The Physical-Disk DrawerCAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should onlyperform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or asdirected by the online or telephone service and support team. Damage due to servicing that isnot authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructionsthat came with the product.1. Hold the physical-disk drawer and push it into the chassis until it is seated properly.2. Hold and rotate the release latches toward the system until the release latches lock into place.3. Install the front bezel.Removing The Physical-Disk DrawerCAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should onlyperform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or asdirected by the online or telephone service and support team. Damage due to servicing that isnot authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructionsthat came with the product.1. Prepare the physical-disk drawer for removal using the MD Storage Manager software.For more information, see the Dell PowerVault MD Series Storage Arrays Administrator's Guide atdell.com/powervaultmanuals.2. Remove the front bezel.3. Remove both the SAS cable chains from the back of the chassis.4. Open the physical-disk drawer.CAUTION: Do not try to remove more than one drawer at a time. Ensure that you insert thedrawer that is out completely before pulling out another drawer.NOTE: Note and save the location of the physical disks before removing the physical disks fromthe physical-disk drawer.NOTE: The physical-disk drawers are not hot-swappable. Replacing a physical-disk drawercauses all of the physical disks in the replaced drawer to be unavailable to the controllers in thestorage subsystem. If the physical disks in array of the new physical-disk drawer were createdwithout drawer loss protection, you must schedule down time to replace the drawer becausethese arrays fail when the drawer is replaced.5. Remove all the physical disks from the disk drawer.6. Slide the physical-disk drawer out until the release tab on each side of the disk drawer is visible.7. Pull the release tab toward the front of the system to release the physical-disk drawer from thechassis and pull the physical-disk drawer out of the chassis.24